I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.